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Affinity Rainbow Publications is now accepting submissions of romance novels for the 2020/2021 schedule, please see our submission page for details.
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 Country Living
Jen Silver
When Peri Sanderson achieves her dream of moving from London to a cottage in the English countryside, she expects her domestic bliss will be complete when her wife, Karla, leaves her London job to join her. Peri sees their future together as growing vegetables, tending some chickens, and chatting with the locals by a roaring log fire in a quaint village pub.
Sexy urbanite, Karla, has other ideas and they don't include a move to the countryside.
Secrets are everywhere. Peri quickly senses something not quite right among her rural neighbours, and Karla is not quite the worldly wise woman-about-town that she thinks she is.
Temptation, betrayal and intrigue combine to change the lives of both women beyond anything they could have imagined.
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Pages: 195 eBook
Word count: 58,547
Price: US $7.99 eBook
$16.00 Print
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 The Panty Thief
Annette Mori
Joey Hartford is a fourth-year medical student who often jokes about her jealous mistress—medical school. She insists she doesn’t have time for a relationship given the disastrous consequence of a diversion from her studies, but the new tenant in her apartment building is proving too tempting to ignore.
Sabrina is also in her final year of her doctoral program. Her focus is on completing her dissertation for a topic she has long lost her passion for. Meeting Joey is dangerous for so many reasons. She should know, because mental health is her specialty?
Add to the mix a suicidal ex-girlfriend who suddenly reappears in Sabrina’s life along with Joey’s jealous ‘friend-with-benefits’, and things can’t help but get complicated quickly.
Find out what happens in this humorous contemporary romance from award-winning Affinity Rainbow Publications author, Annette Mori.
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Pages: 195 eBook
Word count: 58,547
Price: US $7.99 eBook
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Don't forget last month's book!
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Before the Light
Samantha Hicks
One year after, her long-time partner Meredith’s abduction, and their subsequent break-up, Kathleen Bowden-Scott’s life is spiralling out of control. Her guilt over pushing Meredith away has her losing focus at work, causing her employer to recommend a sabbatical to sort her life out.
Meredith suggests volunteering to help others might allow Kathleen to move on and build a new life. At the local women’s centre she meets Bethany Jones and despite an instant attraction Kathleen shies away. Beth has her own reasons for avoiding a relationship. An ex out for revenge.
While each one thinks they have put aside their attraction, inside a slow burn ignites. Forced to put their feelings on hold when Beth’s problems escalate and life takes a dangerous turn.
In this fast-paced, romantic suspense, lies are exposed and hearts unite as Kathleen and Beth fight for their future.
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Pages: 180 eBook
Word count: 54,638
Price: US $7.99 eBook
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 Affinity's Audio Books
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The Trophy Wives Club and Unknown Forces Audio books are live!
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Affinity Monthly Giveaway
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Congratulations to our giveaway corner winner- Gill - The Hidden Room.
Now the question on everyone’s lips is what’s the giveaway this month?
Deuce by Jen Silver - eBook
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Only those subscribers to the newsletter are eligible for the draw.
The draw will take place on the 15th of every month. Winner/s will be notified within 24 hours.
Tell your friends about this opportunity and have them become subscribers. They will need to go to our website and click on the subscribe to newsletter or go to the giveaway icon.
Author of the month Jen SIlver.
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 I feel fortunate to live in a beautiful part of England. My wife and I have lived in this part of the country for twenty-six years now. But it almost didn’t happen.
We were living in London – I use the city’s name loosely – we worked in central London and lived in a suburb, commuting in by train everyday. Then my wife got a new job – ‘up North’. I didn’t particularly want to move, so we did the long-distance thing for a while. I thought she wouldn’t stay long.
The first time I travelled up for a weekend, she met me at a Manchester train station. As we drove through some rather depressed looking towns with soot-blackened houses, I was even more convinced a move here wasn’t for me.
Eventually it became clear that she was enjoying the new job and so I did join her. But I thought our only chance of meeting any other lesbians would be by going into Manchester. When we bought a house near the market town of Hebden Bridge, I had no idea that it was known as the ‘Lesbian capital of the north’.
 
Now when we occasionally visit London, I wonder why I took so long to make the move. We have the best of both worlds here – living in a small town with all its amenities. Yet, when I look out of the windows of our house, I can see sheep grazing on the fields rising up out of the valley.
We also have a community of friends here that has grown considerably over the last four years with our involvement in the Happy Valley Pride festival. Being a published author has expanded my friends’ base further afield through meeting and communicating with other authors and readers, mainly through social media.
My latest novel, published by Affinity Rainbow Publications, is set in a place near Hebden Bridge that I’ve named Heron Ridge. Although Country Living starts out with one MC moving from London to the country, and her wife not being keen on the idea, I can assure you that any similarities with my life ends there.
My stories revolve around relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t, and sometimes a move to the country can work out for the best.
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Erin go Bragh!
For most of the 20th century, Saint Patrick’s Day was considered a strictly religious holiday in Ireland, which meant that the nation’s pubs were closed for business on March 17… the horror! (The one exception went to beer vendors at the big national dog show, which was always held on Saint Patrick’s Day.) In 1970, the day was converted to a national holiday, and the stout resumed flowing.
Irish immigrants began observing St. Patrick’s Day in Boston in 1737 and the first St. Patrick’s Day parade in America was held in New York City in 1766.
The real St. Patrick wasn’t Irish. He was born in Britain around A.D. 390 to an aristocratic Christian family.
As you might expect, Saint Patrick’s Day is a huge deal. It’s a national holiday in both Ireland and Northern Ireland.
New York City’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade is one of the world’s largest parades. Since 1762, 250,000 marchers have traipsed up Fifth Avenue on foot – the parade still doesn’t allow floats, cars, or other modern trappings.
New York may have the parade, but Chicago has a spectacle all its own. The city has been celebrating Saint Patrick by dumping green dye into the Chicago River since 1962. It takes 40 tons of dye to get the river to a suitably festive shade!
Not every city goes all-out in its celebratory efforts. From 1999 to 2007, the Irish village of Dripsey proudly touted that it hosted the Shortest Saint Patrick’s Day Parade in the World. The route ran for 26 yards between two pubs. Today, Hot Springs, Arkansas claims the title for brevity – its brief parade runs for 98 feet.
Shamrocks are the national flower/emblem of Ireland.
The color of St. Patrick’s Day was originally blue. Wearing green has become a staple of St. Patrick’s Day, but the holiday was originally associated with the color blue. It’s thought that the shift to green happened because of Ireland’s nickname “The Emerald Isle,” the green in the Irish flag and the shamrock, or clover. Green ribbons and shamrocks were worn as early as the 17th century.
Beer is one of the most widely consumed beverages on St. Patrick’s Day. Guinness is one of the most popular drinks on St. Patrick’s Day.
Legend says that each leaf of the clover has a meaning: Hope, Faith, Love and Luck.
There are 34.7 million U.S. residents with Irish ancestry. This number is more than seven times the population of Ireland itself.
Your odds of finding a four-leaf clover are about 1 in 10,000.
St. Patrick never got canonized by a pope, making his saintly status somewhat questionable.
Corned beef and cabbage, a traditional Saint Patrick’s Day staple, doesn’t have anything to do with the grain corn. Instead, it’s a nod to the large grains of salt that were historically used to cure meats, which were also known as “corns.”
All of the Saint Patrick’s Day revelry around the globe is great news for brewers. A 2012 estimate pegged the total amount spent on beer for Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations at $245 million. And that’s before tips to pubs’ bartenders.
Don’t be fooled by any holiday decorations showing lady leprechauns. In traditional Irish folk tales, there are no female leprechauns, only nattily attired little guys. Another little-known fact from Irish lore: Leprechauns earned that gold they’re guarding. According to legend, leprechauns spend their days making and mending shoes.
You can’t attend a Saint Patrick’s Day event without hearing a cry of “Erin go Bragh.” What’s the phrase mean? It’s a corruption of the Irish Éirinn go Brách, which means roughly “Ireland Forever.”
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Enjoy our newest podcasts, with Annette Mori reading from both The Trophy Wives Club penned by Ali Spooner, and Annette's newest book, Pleasure Workers.
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E noho rā–Goodbye,
Koru
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